Not the same thing but I was reminded of a joke about the puzzle game Stephen's Sausage Roll:

> I have calculated the value of Pi on Sausage Island and found it to be 2.

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As they say in a somewhat different context: worse is better

> But what if you could push?

There are a number of so-called "bounty" programs like this for software, I don't know how well any of them work.

Or grade accounts by the logarithm of how many accounts were registered before them, like Slashdot. (This is tongue in cheek as I assume yours was.)

> The "inability to act" which, as Forrester points out, "provided the incentive" to augment or replace the low-internal-speed human organizations with computers, might in some other historical situation have been an incentive for modifying the task to be accomplished, perhaps doing away with it altogether, or for restructuring the human organizations whose inherent limitations were, after all, seen as the root of the trouble. [...]

> Yes, the computer did arrive "just in time." But in time for what? In time to save--and save very nearly intact, indeed, to entrench and stabilize--social and political structures that might have been either radically renovated or allowed to totter under the demands that were sure to be made on them.

- Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason (1976) pp 29-30

I imagine it's a case where you hire a dozen or so test attendants.

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Maybe this is too obvious to say but it doesn't matter what they're selling the access for, it's the unwanted installation of the proxy that's malware. If you're buying access from a service that gets its residential network access that way you're contributing to the problem.

Seems much more likely it's just going through a list of all games, collated from databases that humans have painstakingly curated.

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